This puzzle:

Roy Leban notes: Don Adams died late on 9/25/2005, a Sunday. I read about it early Monday morning, realized DON ADAMS and GET SMART were the same length, and came up with SHOE PHONE to match the obvious EIGHTY SIX, plus the 15 WOULD YOU BELIEVE to round it out. Since it's hard to predict if Will's going to like a tribute puzzle, I contacted him before I constructed the puzzle. He liked the puzzle, so I finished it and sent it to him shortly after midnight that night. Will edited it immediately and it was fun exchanging back-and-forth emails as he did so. I'm sure that doesn't happen often! He caught that I had used OPRY in addition to OPERAS, so OPRY became AWRY. It ran the following Monday 10/3/2005.